Kanzenshuu

Is there a reason why AB didn't used the ProRes Dbox masters ? They couldn't get them in time - the Toei communication and approval process is exceptionally slow. Rather than use Selecta Vision's release, they decided it was better to use the materials they had and produce the best upscale they cou...

I do love the idea that this is somehow up for debate. It is an upscale. The very people involved in its production told me in detail how it was done. I've relayed that here. Even if I hadn't, it's so obviously an upscale that the debate is baffling in the first place. AI invents detail all the time...

eledoremassis02 wrote: ↑Sat Dec 03, 2022 4:57 pm
Do you know if it was from European DVDs or the Japanese DVDs . If the compression is as different as the JPvsFUNi dvds (for z) that could effect it quite a lot

The Japanese ones

It is an upscale from the DVD master, yeah. DBOX ~> DNR + MPEG2 artifact filtering ~> AI upscale ~> regrain Did SV made theirs from the same source? No, SV made theirs from the actual ProRes Dragon Box masters, while AB Groupe used the already encoded DBOX DVDs hence the issues with the dark detail...

It is an upscale from the DVD master, yeah.

DBOX ~> DNR + MPEG2 artifact filtering ~> AI upscale ~> regrain

Glad you enjoyed the video! Thanks for the kind words. I'm hoping a lot of people will pick this up. I think regardless of whether you can play it or even understand it without subs, it's one of the products that's worth importing if you can thanks to its importance. Supporting AB Groupe's decision ...

sangofe wrote: ↑Thu Nov 24, 2022 3:16 pm Did they color correct in that short time?

They did, yeah. This probably accounts for the odd shot that isn't perfect and the omission of NEP corrections. Little shortcuts in an otherwise very solid remaster.

Just for clarity, AstroRes is a company and not a program. They have their own proprietary method of tackling things. I also entirely disagree about that A-Ko upscale being better than DB's. It looks like a bigger upgrade at a glance as the source is worse, but the actual final results are far more ...

This release has made the DBOX completely irrelevant. Wow.

fabrebatalla18 wrote: ↑Tue Nov 22, 2022 3:22 pm Can someone compare it with the Spanish BD? I'm curious if they used the same upscale.

I did - https://twitter.com/AnimeAjay/status/15 ... 3300958208

It's not the same. The Spanish one is awful.

Is it me, or is it slightly vertically stretched? Or is it correct and the JP DVD is horizontally stretched? The person who posted the DBOX shots there didn't capture them in their display aspect ratio, instead he used their storage resolution. They're the same when displayed correctly - https://im...

Can't believe France saved Dragon Ball.

Two of those sources are historically correct (Ajay and Geekdom), so yeah, I'm pretty sure things did in fact just change. The opposite is true. The most major "leak" by Ajay and Geekdom is the reason we are so skeptical of this one. They double and triple downed that it was coming back a...

Do we have any confirmation milkman is still working on this? Last post from him was over a year ago and it sounded like he was close to being done, and then nothing after that. He's waiting for SoM to finish their colour correction project before finishing Z and releasing the final version of DB R...

Shouldn't there be loads of very obvious tape marks on shot changes if no restoration was carried out? I know for the TV show, they would basically glue or tape each shot together after its film strip was developed, so you get huge marks at the top of the first frame and the bottom of the last fram...

That's only really half true. They're all storyboarded and animated using 4:3 layouts, but it was the later ones that started using 16:9 guides on top of the 4:3 frames to ensure it worked in both formats. Those don't exist on the early films, so they're 100% created for fullscreen and shouldn't be ...

It's worth nothing that Kineko didn't actually do any restoration yet, they just scanned and cropped it.

You can pull out that dark detail from their print just fine:

This isn't anything to do with Sony or CrunchyRoll. These prints were discarded in 2008/2009, shortly after Funimation produced their remasters for the double feature Blu-rays. This particular reel came from Allied Vaughn who are company that provide reel scanning . It's likely Funimation used their...

People like Chikashi Kubota and Yuya Takahashi grew up watching Dragon Ball and then went on to make major marks on the series with their contributions to modern content. Kubota realised he wanted to animate while watching Dragon Ball. He became friends with Katsuyoshi Nakatsuru later in a life, to ...

I take it to mean that users who've had accounts long enough that are 1000+ posts are cozy being part of the forum and website as a whole. That's what it means, but the comma usage is unnecessary and incorrect. It's always bothered me but it's part of the forum history at this point and I don't wan...